Project Space
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The Project Space is a kind of viewing room. It is the room separate from the main gallery where privileged art buyers are taken to sip champagne and view an artist's work. For the next couple of months The Blue Lotus Foundation will be hosting some of our favourite artists. As a brief, we asked each artist three questions, their response could be in any form they desired. This month, we feature the work of the artist Daniel Davidson.
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Being As Multiple 2019 Spanish Alabaster
(H) 295 mm (W) 145 mm (D) 130 mm Rupture #1 2018 Lava / Aluminium
(H) 370 mm (W) 100 mm (D) 70 mm |
Rupture #2 2018 Lava / Aluminium
(H) 440 mm (W) 110 mm (D) 80 mm Void #1 2019 Spanish Alabaster / Black 3.0
(H) 305 mm (W) 140 mm (D) 120 mm |
Void #2 2019 Welsh Slate / Black 3.0
(H) 340 mm (W) 450 mm (D) 80 mm Asymmetric Worlds #5 2019 Spanish Alabaster / Black 3.0 (H) 300 mm (W) 150 mm (D) 150 mm
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1/ What fuels your work? Art has the power to change how we feel, to transport us to new worlds and to ultimately empower us as human beings. It is the opportunity to participate in this process that fuels my work as a sculptor.
2/ What do you expect from it? My practice as a sculptor, gives me the sense of a timeless companion that spans many spaces and civilisations. It is through my practice, that I engage in the dialectic of learning, contemplation and expression. This is a cyclical process that will help to guide me through the remainder of my life.
3/ How do recent world-wide events affect your creative outlook /if at all? Covid-19 has provided us with another example of the perilous logic of insatiable economic growth, which in this case has fuelled the destruction of natural habitats and encouraged a virus to run rampant through our globalised world. Art has the power to elucidate and to serve our imaginations with the possibilities of other worlds, it is with this in mind that art has a critical part to play in helping us out of the bind that we currently find ourselves in.
Daniel Davidsson is a sculptor who lives and works in London.
website: danieldavidsson.com | instagram: @danieldavidssonsculpture
2/ What do you expect from it? My practice as a sculptor, gives me the sense of a timeless companion that spans many spaces and civilisations. It is through my practice, that I engage in the dialectic of learning, contemplation and expression. This is a cyclical process that will help to guide me through the remainder of my life.
3/ How do recent world-wide events affect your creative outlook /if at all? Covid-19 has provided us with another example of the perilous logic of insatiable economic growth, which in this case has fuelled the destruction of natural habitats and encouraged a virus to run rampant through our globalised world. Art has the power to elucidate and to serve our imaginations with the possibilities of other worlds, it is with this in mind that art has a critical part to play in helping us out of the bind that we currently find ourselves in.
Daniel Davidsson is a sculptor who lives and works in London.
website: danieldavidsson.com | instagram: @danieldavidssonsculpture
The opinions and words expressed here are the artists and do not reflect the belief systems of The Blue Lotus Foundation.
Archive
Rosalind Wilson is a mixed media artist and educator based in London. She is interested in everyday occurrences and how we value them. What is deemed worthy of attention and what is dismissed? What ideas are imposed in public and private space and what is overlooked? As part of her practice she documents her encounters with the collected ephemera she uses in her work. Working with and from collected found matter she explores arbitrary notions of value, where attention is drawn or distracted and the invisible limitations that govern public space. website: rosalindwilson.com instagram: @rosalindfreyaclaire
Image 1: 2 x AA
Material: Rusted battery and lichen covered twig
Size: (l)7cm x (w)5cm x (h)2cm
Date: 2020
Image 2: Just Enough
Material: Seed pods and terracotta pot
Size: (w)6.5cm x (h)5cm x (d)2.5cm
Date: 2020
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Image 3: Terracotta Mints
Material: Mint green plastic bag and rich terracotta coloured flat leaves
Size: (w)23cm x (h)12cm x (d)22cm
Date: 2020
Image 4: Lichen Roll
Materials: Yellow felt and lichen covered bark
Size: (l)15cm x (h)5.5cm x (w)7.5cm
Date: 2020
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Image 4: Blue Fist
Material: Blue Felt and Brick
Size: (h)12cm x (l)13cm x (d)7cm
Date: 2020
Image 4: From Kerala
Materials: Postcard
Size: (h)8cm x (d)5xcm x (l)15cm
Date: 2020
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